Restorative Reading and Writing for Wellness

Today, I’m sharing three books that bend time….and hearts. Each of these books alters time in some way: by going back, by imagining a new future and by hopping into another time and place. But these books do more than bend time…they bend our hearts, too. It’s nearly impossible to NOT reflect on how we might bend time ourselves if we could and that gives us all the feels. You don’t want to miss these books.

You'll find all the books mentioned here in the show notes page, plus much more!

If you loved these book pairings, you might like to take a look at my digital reading and writing community called Get Lit(erate). Each month, we take a deep dive into one bookish theme and work to bring it to life in our own lives. You’ll get a monthly bibliotherapy book calendar with a book recommendation for every day of the month, bonus episodes, live book club sessions and much more. Learn more at www.getliterate.co.

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Today, I’m sharing the three backlist books I’ve chosen to finish my TBR stack of summer beach reads. We’re going all the way back to the year 2000 and I’m even giving an author a second chance after reading a book that wasn’t the right fit for me.

You'll find all the books mentioned here on the show notes page, plus much more!

If you loved these book pairings, you might like to take a look at my digital reading and writing community called Get Lit(erate). Each month, we take a deep dive into one bookish theme and work to bring it to life in our own lives. You’ll get a monthly bibliotherapy book calendar with a book recommendation for every day of the month, bonus episodes, live book club sessions and much more. Learn more at www.getliterate.co.

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Today, I’m sharing three books that offer incredible parenting advice…but are not parenting books. You see, we can learn lessons from ALL the books we read, even those that come in unexpected places.

You'll find all the books mentioned here on the show notes page, plus much more!

If you loved these book pairings, you might like to take a look at my digital reading and writing community called Get Lit(erate). Each month, we take a deep dive into one bookish theme and work to bring it to life in our own lives. You’ll get a monthly bibliotherapy book calendar with a book recommendation for every day of the month, bonus episodes, live book club sessions and much more. Learn more at www.getliterate.co.

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Every week on the podcast, I share three books that you need to know about. Books that make us laugh, make us cry, help us learn and broaden our perspectives, too.

But what our writing lives?

That was the top question I was asked after releasing Episode 5 where I shared 3 books to inspire your reading life. How can we use books to inspire our writing lives, too?

So today, I’m sharing three books that will help us do just that. One book will show us the power of writing in our everyday lives, another will show us the notebooking life in action and another will bring us writing inspiration whenever we need it.

You'll find all the books mentioned here on the show notes page, plus much more!

If you loved these book pairings, you might like to take a look at my digital reading and writing community called Get Lit(erate). Each month, we take a deep dive into one bookish theme and work to bring it to life in our own lives. You’ll get a monthly bibliotherapy book calendar with a book recommendation for every day of the month, bonus episodes, live book club sessions and much more. Learn more at www.getliterate.co.

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Today, I’m sharing three books that can change your life. How do know they can? Well, because they've changed mine.

You'll find all the books mentioned here on the show notes page, plus much more!

If you loved these book pairings, you might like to take a look at my digital reading and writing community called Get Lit(erate). Each month, we take a deep dive into one bookish theme and work to bring it to life in our own lives. You’ll get a monthly bibliotherapy book calendar with a book recommendation for every day of the month, bonus episodes, live book club sessions and much more. Learn more at www.getliterate.co.

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I vividly remember one particular book from my childhood reading life: The Monster at the End of this Book by Jon Stone. It’s highly immersive, interactive nature set the foundation for all books to come in my reading life, especially picture books.

But I realized that I do not celebrate the picture books I read on my reading log nearly enough. So, I’m doing just that inside this episode. By the way, if you want my reading log, you can grab it for FREE in the show notes below. 

Today, I’m sharing three picture books that have big, adult lessons. These books encourage us to broaden who we are in the world, know that we are enough just the way we are and even give us a needed mindset shift.

You'll find all the books mentioned here on the show notes page, plus much more.

If you loved these book pairings, you might like to take a look at my digital reading and writing community called Get Lit(erate). There are monthly content drops, bi-weekly live sessions and weekly email inspiration. You’ll find reading and writing coaching, book calendars, book lists, book clubs, notebook parties, writing prompts and more. Find out more here: http://www.getliterate.co

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Life is hard. And making space for our reading life can be even harder.

Today, I'm sharing three books sure to inspire your reading life when you need a little lift. Books with bookish settings, bookish plots and books that mention MORE books are just the things you need to get out of a reading rut.

You'll find all the books mentioned here on the show notes page, plus much more!

If you loved these book pairings, you might like to take a look at my digital reading and writing community called Get Lit(erate). There are monthly content drops, bi-weekly live sessions and weekly email inspiration. You’ll find reading and writing coaching, book calendars, book lists, book clubs, notebook parties, writing prompts and more. Find out more here: http://www.getliterate.co

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Books have the potential to transport us to another time and place. We can literally get lost in the pages to escape our own lives for a short time. But what if we intentionally curated our TBR stacks to literally take us places we have never, could never or would never physically go to? Today, I'm sharing three books that will take us around the world without a single suitcase needed!

You'll find all the books mentioned here on the show notes page, plus much more!

If you loved these book pairings, you might like to take a look at my digital reading and writing community called Get Lit(erate). There are monthly content drops, bi-weekly live sessions and weekly email inspiration. You’ll find reading and writing coaching, book calendars, book lists, book clubs, notebook parties, writing prompts and more. Find out more here: http://www.getliterate.co

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I have a special page in my notebook that I treasure: Books I’ve Hugged. Yes. These are the books that I’ve loved so much that I did not want to let go of them when I turned the last page…so I didn’t. I hugged them instead. 

Today, I’m sharing three of these huggable middle grade novels. And while they are perfect for the middle grade reader in your life, they are also perfect for the adult reader who needs a bit of a bookish hug, too.

Here are the books mentioned:

The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden 

The Road to After by Rebekah Lowell

How to Find What You're Not Looking For by Veera Hiranandani

The Other Half of Happy by Rebecca Balcarcel 

Here's the blog post I mentioned on what adults should read children's literature, too!

And here's an apology, too. Ed Mylett was actually the person who taught me that there are things that are caught, not taught. I read A LOT of personal development and need to be better at not mixing up my quotes.

If you loved these book pairings, you might like to take a look at my digital reading and writing community called Get Lit(erate). There are monthly content drops, bi-weekly live sessions and weekly email inspiration. You’ll find reading and writing coaching, book calendars, book lists, book clubs, notebook parties, writing prompts and more. Find out more here: http://www.getliterate.co

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Epistolary novels, or novels writing in letter form, are mt favorite kind of genre. I feel a deep connection to the characters, get transported into another time and place and feel that deep-rooted desire to write old-fashioned letters return at an all time high.

In today’s episode, I’m sharing three of my favorite epistolary novels sure to send you to the stationary store! Together, we’ll revive the art of letter-writing!

Here are the books mentioned:

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

Love & Saffron by Kim Fay

Dear Sister by Alison McGhee

And then, be sure to visit the Charlie Mackesy site to buy your own beautiful stationary!

If you loved these book pairings, you might like to take a look at my digital reading and writing community called Get Lit(erate). There are monthly content drops, bi-weekly live sessions and weekly email inspiration. You’ll find reading and writing coaching, book calendars, book lists, book clubs, notebook parties, writing prompts and more. Find out more here: http://www.getliterate.co

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